Medicine: Saving

Quantities of human blood are lost each year in childbirth. Much of it
is blood which obstetricians leave in the placenta by clamping
umbilical cords, doing so in the belief that they thereby make the
afterbirth easy and complete. This practice "never had any scientific
appeal" to Obstetrician James Robert Goodall of Montreal. "Why waste
all this valuable material?" he asked. He and his assistants*
experimented, found no harm done to mothers by draining placental blood
immediately upon birth, foundas he announced in this month's Surgery,
Gynecology & Obstetricsthat it can be stored indefinitely...